TY - JOUR
T1 - The Origin of the Stellar Mass Distribution and Multiplicity
AU - Lee, Yueh Ning
AU - Offner, Stella S.R.
AU - Hennebelle, Patrick
AU - André, Philippe
AU - Zinnecker, Hans
AU - Ballesteros-Paredes, Javier
AU - Inutsuka, Shu ichiro
AU - Kruijssen, J. M.Diederik
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - In this chapter, we review some historical understanding and recent advances on the Initial Mass Function (IMF) and the Core Mass Function (CMF), both in terms of observations and theories. We focus mostly on star formation in clustered environment since this is suggested by observations to be the dominant mode of star formation. The statistical properties and the fragmentation behaviour of turbulent gas is discussed, and we also discuss the formation of binaries and small multiple systems.
AB - In this chapter, we review some historical understanding and recent advances on the Initial Mass Function (IMF) and the Core Mass Function (CMF), both in terms of observations and theories. We focus mostly on star formation in clustered environment since this is suggested by observations to be the dominant mode of star formation. The statistical properties and the fragmentation behaviour of turbulent gas is discussed, and we also discuss the formation of binaries and small multiple systems.
KW - Core mass function
KW - Initial mass function
KW - Multiplicity
KW - Stellar cluster
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U2 - 10.1007/s11214-020-00699-2
DO - 10.1007/s11214-020-00699-2
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85086269010
SN - 0038-6308
VL - 216
JO - Space Science Reviews
JF - Space Science Reviews
IS - 4
M1 - 70
ER -